That news comes after Insurance Commissioner Steve Poiznerrevealed emails from a Whitman campaign consultant asking Poizner to drop out of the race and implying that in return he would receive support in a Senate run against Dianne Feinstein, California's senior senator and a Democrat, in 2012.

According to the Post, Campbell himself received the help of a top Whitman fundraiser shortly after jumping ship -- suggesting that there is no love lost between Whitman and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, both of whom served to promote Senator John McCain's failed presidential campaign.

Brown also got some good news on one of the few gaffes in his ongoing non-campaign campaign. An investigation into a campaign aide taping phone calls between the campaign and reporters died on the vine when reporters refused to cooperate, oddly citing state shield law protections for journalists.

Jackson West wishes he could expense a trip to the state's party conventions.